Gérard Gefen (3 July 1934 – 6 August 2003) was a French musicologist and writer. He was also a journalist and music critic, translator, radio and classical record producer.
Career
Gefen studied philosophy and political science together with art history and music and eventually turned to music.
He produced programmes for Radio France and collaborated with several music press magazines (La Lettre du musicien...), in particular as editor-in-chief of Symphonia.[1][2][3]
Gérard Gefen (1986). Furtwängler, une biographie par le disque (in French). Paris: Éditions Belfond. p. 222. ISBN271441866X. OCLC18751614. — Reissue updated:
Wilhelm Furtwängler: la puissance et la gloire, éditions de l'Archipel 2001 OCLC50644279 — preface by Elisabeth Furtwängler. With audio disc. Followed by Je n'ai pas cédé, unpublished work.
Paris des artistes : 1840-1940, éditions du Chêne 1998 OCLC39633969 — photographs by Jean-Marie Del Moral,
Le Siècle de feu de l’opéra italien, éditions du Chêne 2000 OCLC412578790
Gérard Gefen (2000). La Sicile au temps des Guépards, vie quotidienne d'une aristocratie (in French). Paris: éditions du Chêne. OCLC468194943. — English translation, Sicily, Land of the Leopard Princes published by Tauris Parke 2001.
Maisons de musiciens, éditions du Chêne 1997 OCLC499277269 — photographs by Christine Bastin and Jaques Evrard; English edition Composers' houses: Seven Dials, 2000 OCLC43377557.
Jardins des plaisirs, Citadelles et Mazenod 2004 OCLC469371686 — photographs by Christine Bastin and Jacques Evrard.
Articles
Les Inconvenances maçonniques selon Herbert Inman, in Renaissance traditionnelle [fr], N° 90, April 1992, p. 233; issues 91–92, July–October 1992, p. 31.
La curiosité récompensée, in Les Nouvelles d’Arménie, October 1994[6] — introduction to pianist Édouard Exerjean.[7]
Gérard Gefen also translator works by English economist Andrew Shonfield for the éditions Gallimard, as well as other works in English, notably on music:
Franco Zeffirelli, Portrait d'un homme du siècle, Belfond 1989 OCLC41786743
Andrei Gromyko, Mémoires, Belfond 1989 OCLC461960348 — translated from English by Françoise Du Sorbier, Gérard Gefen, Amal Naccache and Sabine Montagne.
Bruce Oudes (éd.) De la part du Président : les archives secrètes de Richard Nixon, Belfond 1991 OCLC25263998 — translated from American by Gérard Géfen and Roxane Azimi; French edition prepared by Marie Cayrade.